But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

There may be many more satellite galaxies in the Milky Way than have been observed, according to new Durham University ...

Stellar-mass black holes form from the death of massive stars and have already been found via a variety of different techniques.

A missing link black hole that sits in the mass gap between stellar-mass black holes and supermassive black holes is "parked" right by the Milky Way's central black hole, Sagittarius A*.

New research suggests sub-stellar objects called dark dwarfs could glow forever on dark matter energy. Could they reveal secrets about the universe’s hidden mass?

Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A stellar mass black hole is a type of black hole that forms from the ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the ...

Stellar-mass black holes form from the death of massive stars and have already been found via a variety of different techniques.